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19-03-2020

COVID 19

Important Notice – Unity Street Chambers response to the Coronavirus pandemic. Unity Street Chambers continues to review the Coronavirus situation and is following all relevant government […]
05-11-2018

‘Banter’ and breach of the Equality Act?

The recent decision of the EAT in Evans v Xactly Corporation Ltd (UKEATPA/0128/18/LA) dealt with the circumstances in which calling someone a “fat ginger pikey” could […]
12-10-2018

Office Violence and Vicarious Liability

In a very interesting development in the field of employer’s liability (which has repercussions in both the Employment and Personal Injury field), the Court of Appeal […]
16-02-2018

Delayed Fact-Findings, the Enemy of Justice

J (Children) 2018 EWCA Civ 115 http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2018/115.html This recent case reconfirms the need for a fact-finding hearing at an early stage when a without notice non-molestation order has been […]
05-12-2017

New Guidance of Costs of Costs Budgeting

New Guidance of Costs of Costs Budgeting The revised PD3E 7.2 now reads: “7.2 Save in exceptional circumstances— (a) the recoverable costs of initially completing Precedent […]
19-03-2020

COVID 19

Important Notice – Unity Street Chambers response to the Coronavirus pandemic. Unity Street Chambers continues to review the Coronavirus situation and is following all relevant government […]
05-11-2018

‘Banter’ and breach of the Equality Act?

The recent decision of the EAT in Evans v Xactly Corporation Ltd (UKEATPA/0128/18/LA) dealt with the circumstances in which calling someone a “fat ginger pikey” could […]
12-10-2018

Office Violence and Vicarious Liability

In a very interesting development in the field of employer’s liability (which has repercussions in both the Employment and Personal Injury field), the Court of Appeal […]
16-02-2018

Delayed Fact-Findings, the Enemy of Justice

J (Children) 2018 EWCA Civ 115 http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2018/115.html This recent case reconfirms the need for a fact-finding hearing at an early stage when a without notice non-molestation order has been […]
05-12-2017

New Guidance of Costs of Costs Budgeting

New Guidance of Costs of Costs Budgeting The revised PD3E 7.2 now reads: “7.2 Save in exceptional circumstances— (a) the recoverable costs of initially completing Precedent […]